diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 236cf4b..dffe293 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ authors = ["Paul Colomiets <paul@colomiets.name>", "Colin Kiegel <kiegel@gmx.de>
 homepage = "http://github.com/tailhook/quick-error"
 repository = "http://github.com/tailhook/quick-error"
 documentation = "http://tailhook.github.io/quick-error/"
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+backtrace = "0.2"
diff --git a/examples/backtrace.rs b/examples/backtrace.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8675b8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/backtrace.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#[macro_use(quick_error)] extern crate quick_error;
+extern crate backtrace;
+
+use std::io::{self, stderr, Read, Write};
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::env;
+use std::num::ParseIntError;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+use quick_error::ResultExt;
+use backtrace::Backtrace;
+
+quick_error! {
+    #[derive(Debug)]
+    pub enum Error {
+        NoFileName {
+            description("no file name specified")
+        }
+        Io(err: io::Error, path: PathBuf, tb: Backtrace) {
+            display("could not read file {:?}: {}\n{:?}", path, err, tb)
+            context(path: &'a Path, err: io::Error)
+                -> (err, path.to_path_buf(), Backtrace::new())
+        }
+        Parse(err: ParseIntError, path: PathBuf) {
+            display("could not parse file {:?}: {}", path, err)
+            context(path: &'a Path, err: ParseIntError)
+                -> (err, path.to_path_buf())
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn parse_file() -> Result<u64, Error> {
+    let fname = try!(env::args().skip(1).next().ok_or(Error::NoFileName));
+    let fname = Path::new(&fname);
+    let mut file = try!(File::open(fname).context(fname));
+    let mut buf = String::new();
+    try!(file.read_to_string(&mut buf).context(fname));
+    Ok(try!(buf.parse().context(fname)))
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    match parse_file() {
+        Ok(val) => {
+            println!("Read: {}", val);
+        }
+        Err(e) => {
+            writeln!(&mut stderr(), "Error: {}", e).ok();
+        }
+    }
+}